The MD is well aware that the forecasts are no good but he needs them for planning purposes.

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.

Now virtue may not always be its own reward, but in any case it is not usually bought and paid for at market rates.

Vast ills have followed a belief in certainty.

Unsolved problems, that's one of the great signs of progress in my opinion.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.

One thing I learned from meteorology is that being an actual science was no guarantee of exactness.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

Usefulness depends on tractability.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

We need to resist all the attacks of the enemy and not get caught in his provocations

How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

Hail, hail rock and roll / Deliver me from the days of old.

Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.

Things are the way they are because they were the way they were.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.